| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xviii, 267 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Medical humanities |
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Medical humanities.
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| Note |
Editor's Note: Frank at the piano -- Foreword: New approaches to end-of-life care / Karen Wolk Feinstein --Introduction / Francine Prose -- To morning / Anne Jacobson -- On bearing witness / Laurie Foos -- Insights in the rearview mirror / Phyllis Westover -- The general / Larry D. Cripe -- Yellow taxi / Eve Joseph -- Wake-up call / Catherine Musemeche -- Simple gifts / Beecher Grogan -- Living and dying well / Therese Zink -- A better place / Valerie Seiling Jacobs -- Waiting (to go home) / Howard Mansfield -- Mr. Stone / Diana Flescher -- The rules / Maria Meindl -- Life and death and 911 / Caroline Burau -- Snowing in Krakow / Marcin Chwistek -- Do you remember? / Patricia McCarthy -- Just listen while the kettle boils / Joe Primo -- This is blood / Sandell Morse -- A figurative death / Carol Cooley -- Whose failure was it? / Jonathan Weinkle -- The measure of time / Amanda J. Redig -- The deep truth / Eugenia Smith -- The resurrection of Wonder Woman / Eleanor Vincent -- Twelve breaths a minute / Gulchin Ergun. |
| Contents |
Editor's Note: Frank at the piano -- Foreword: New approaches to end-of-life care / Karen Wolk Feinstein -- Introduction: Last days / Francine Prose -- To morning / Anne Jacobson -- On bearing witness / Laurie Foos -- Insights in the rearview mirror / Phyllis Galley Westover -- The general / Larry D. Cripe -- Yellow taxi / Eve Joseph -- Wake-up call / Catherine A. Musemeche -- Simple gifts / Beecher Grogan -- Living and dying well / Therese Zink -- A better place / Valerie Seiling Jacobs -- Waiting (to go home) / Howard Mansfield -- Mr. Stone / Diana Flescher -- Rules / Maria Meindl -- Life and death and 911 / Caroline Burau -- Snowing in Krakow / Marcin Chwistek -- Do you remember? / Patricia McCarthy -- The business of grief / Joe Primo -- This is blood / Sandell Morse -- A figurative death / Carol Cooley -- Whose failure was it? / Jonathan Weinkle -- The measure of time / Amanda J. Redig -- The deep truth / Eugenia Smith -- The resurrection of Wonder Woman / Eleanor Vincent -- Twelve breaths a minute / Gulchin A. Ergun. |
| Summary |
An anthology with the reflections of family members, nurses, physicians, and hospice workers as they care for the dying. From publisher description. |
| Subject |
Terminal care.
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Death.
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Caregivers.
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Terminally ill -- Family relationships.
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Palliative treatment.
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Hospice care.
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Death -- Psychological aspects.
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Terminally ill.
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Hospice care. (OCoLC)fst00960872
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Death -- Psychological aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00888643
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Caregivers. (OCoLC)fst00847331
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Death. (OCoLC)fst00888613
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Palliative treatment. (OCoLC)fst01051719
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Terminal care. (OCoLC)fst01147835
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Terminally ill -- Family relationships.
(OCoLC)fst01147883
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| Added Author |
Gutkind, Lee.
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| ISBN |
9780870745713 (alk. paper) |
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0870745719 (alk. paper) |
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